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...host the 2006 Asian Games is a true mixed relay: it includes formerly Kenyan 10,000-m runner Albert Chepkurui, A.K.A. Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, and its training staff - led by a Belgian ex-decathlon competitor - also boasts a Russian, a Czech and a Hungarian. Why didn't Kenya block Shaheen from racing for Qatar the way it stopped 800-m champion Wilson Kipketer running for Denmark at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? There has been wide speculation that Kenyan track authorities were promised payment or a new track facility by their Qatari counterparts. Both federations have denied such allegations...
Lopez from the block, with her mass-market appeal, may not at first be an obvious choice for a high-end luxury-goods brand, but Alas explains, "We were thinking of every big-name model, and no one had the right persona." During a meeting with Vuitton's artistic director Marc Jacobs, it happened that all three had thought of the same woman, and when they contacted her, Lopez said yes. "We wanted to do something where it's not about the little details; it's about a strong, powerful yet charismatic woman. She's pretty, but not pretty...
...bold-faced in the paper. Blahnik signed a copy of his book for Evidente, "To Ben. Without you, we are nothing." He makes so much money that he just bought a vacation house in Hawaii. And here at the semiannual sale, with women standing in line down an entire block to get into the store, he is a ponytailed, tranquil cult leader amid a rush of manicured hands hopefully holding boots up into the curtained storeroom in supplication...
...After a hidden camera caught President Roh Moo Hyun's personal secretary Yang Gil Seung on June 28 at the Kiss Super Night Club south of Seoul, major newspapers and networks reported that the club's owner, under investigation for tax evasion and pimping, asked Yang to block the police probe. The President was furious?at the media. "The unjust oppression by the press must not be tolerated," he told government officials earlier this month. On Aug. 13, Roh sued South Korea's three biggest dailies for reporting an allegation by an opposition lawmaker that Roh bought land under...
...depressed Russian republic of Mordovia, 600 km southeast of Moscow. But for the past three years, Zhbanova, 14, has been following another daily routine: for two hours early in the morning and two more after school, she practices her aces and backhands, flat serves and chip shots, footwork and block volleys. "Trying harder makes up for my starting in tennis too late," she says. "All right, I won't jump as high as Elena Dementieva, but tennis is still my spring-board - the only one I have to take me out of here." This week, Zhbanova and thousands of other...